After the basic image of Panda Bear was designed, Li Mu immediately asked the designer team to introduce more poses and expressions based on the basic image, and improved the Panda Bear material library as quickly as possible.
At the same time, Yiwu's foundry is also working overtime to produce panda bear dolls.
In addition to real-life dolls, Li Mu also asked them to introduce ordinary dolls of 15 centimeters, 30 centimeters and 50 centimeters. These dolls will become the first wave of souvenirs on panda travel routes in the future.
Among them, the 30cm-level dolls will be sent directly to the United States after they are made, and then Lin Qingya will arrange for people from the American branch to set up collection points at the Los Angeles and San Francisco airports in California.
By then, all tourists who purchase panda travel itinerary products through Taobao Qunar.com will be able to receive a 30cm doll before departing from these two airports.
Thirty centimeters is a very interesting size. It’s neither too big nor too small. It’s not so big that it gets in the way, and it’s not so small that it can be stuffed into alleys or bags. Therefore, after tourists get it at the airport, it’s very big. The probability is to hold it or take it on the plane.
In this way, tourists have already begun to promote China's panda tourism before they leave the United States.
The factories that accept OEM customization also attach great importance to this cooperation. They strive for excellence in the design and production process, and Li Mu also gives them enough profit margins in terms of price.
Li Mu has cut off Kumamon Bear in advance and is ready to use it to start a war of emoticons.
Emoji expressions have been popular on the Internet for many years. Now most users feel that these expressions are boring and plain. However, there is no social software to lead a revolution of emoji expressions because everyone thinks that chat emoticons are nothing more than cartoons. Human expressions, including smiles, depression, anger, sadness, embarrassment, sweating, and helplessness, are basically enough.
However, no one thought that GIF animations could be used to lead a new emoticon revolution. It can be used from a wide range of materials, whether it is film and television dramas, games, TV show clips, or short films shot by users themselves. Make it into a set of emoticons.
In the last life, GIF animated emoticons were the first to become popular. They allowed users to experience the unique charm of rich emoticon interactions. Later, various pictures and text-coated berserk emoticons and ghostly animal emoticons also began to become popular.
Li Mu’s current idea is to start with YY, start with GIF, and directly make YY the core battlefield, or even the only battlefield, of the new generation of emoticon wars.
At present, Makino Technology's technology research and development capabilities are already second to none in the Internet industry. Whether it is Yanjing or Silicon Valley, there are Makino Technology's software and hardware R&D centers, not to mention the Apple team that has been fully digested.
With such strong technical support, it is really easy to develop an emoticon package function for YY.
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A few days later, Taobao Logistics delivered several huge packages to Taobao's office space.
Li Mu personally opened the outer packaging. When he saw the real-life "Panda Bear" doll he "designed", he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
Immediately, he asked Master Lei to find seven or eight young and strong young men, and also hired a small shooting team that he had worked with before to start recording emoticons for "Panda Bear", the source of all evil.
Since "Panda Bear" is Li Mu's own "original creation", he not only let seven or eight young people wear Panda Bear dolls, but also put on one himself.
Although this thing is a bit bulky after being put on, looking in the mirror, the workmanship, expression, and body shape are exactly the same as Kumamon, especially the mean look, which is simply restored.
Li Mu got so playful that he personally demonstrated and said to the filming team: "I'm going to run and jump in front of the camera later. You guys follow me in front and remember to keep the same speed as me and back up."
The filming team immediately picked up the camera and got ready in front.
Immediately, Li Mu put on a panda bear doll and staged a famous scene of Kumamon running and jumping while shaking his arms in an exaggerated way.
Interestingly, everyone at the scene thought the panda bear was ugly, but when Li Mu started running and jumping, everyone couldn't help laughing. Some young girls even covered their mouths and laughed.
No one dared to imagine that as the boss of Makino Technology and Taobao, Li Mu could actually wear a doll and make such crazy moves. Not to mention, it was really interesting...
After Li Mu finished the action, he ran to the monitor in his puppet suit to see the effect. He found that he had indeed achieved more than 95% of the restoration, which was perfect.
Later, he performed several classic Kumamon moves that he remembered, such as:
Turning away from the camera and suddenly turning around and waving;
Standing still, he suddenly spreads his legs and makes a chicken-wing gesture with his hands;
Actions of riding a bicycle, tricycle, or motorcycle while wearing a doll suit;
The action of running a few steps quickly in a doll suit and kicking a young guy away;
Subsequently, several other young people wearing panda bears, under his command, tried to do various exaggerated, cute, silly and even cheap actions, each of which made people laugh.
After the filming, Li Mu immediately asked people to make GIFs of the classic clips in these videos, and then added them with Chinese, English, German, French, Japanese and other languages.
For example, the steps, running and jumping movements along the way are subtitled in each language: "Here I come!"
The cute expression that suddenly turns around is paired with a cartoon heart shape, and then "love you" in various languages is added;
An animation of someone kicking someone is accompanied by the words "Go to hell!";
An animated picture of a person rushing towards a restaurant with the caption "It's time to eat!";
An animated picture of someone suddenly lying on the ground while walking, with the caption "This baby can't walk!";
Suddenly the curtain is lifted, and the head is stuck out to look left and right. The caption is "I'm just watching without saying anything..."
An animation that rotates 360 degrees and extends a thumbs up, with the caption: "You are great!"
He dragged his head with both hands and shook it left and right, and added a series of star-effect animations with the words: "I miss you so much..."
Soon, the entire Taobao designer team was immediately immersed in this unprecedented funny atmosphere and couldn't extricate themselves.
The joy of making emoticons made them immersed in it, and they all had a great time.
Li Mu asked them to select 20 different animations from many materials, and then made them into squares with uniform specifications. These are the official dynamic expressions of Panda Bear in the first issue!
Coincidentally, in the past few days while waiting for the dolls and animations, Fang Xudong and his team also developed YY with animation functions.
Not long after, Li Mu was invited by Fang Xudong to participate in an internal demonstration of the beta function.
According to Li Mu's request, Fang Xudong added a GIF expression option next to the emoji expression option in the YY dialog box. The click icon of this option is based on the emoji expression icon, and adds some small dynamic glowing visual effects. On the one hand It is eye-catching, and on the one hand it is also to highlight the dynamic function.
Fang Xudong used a projection to show Li Mu how to add animated images on the spot. When the user clicks the add button, a path selection window will pop up, and the user can directly add the GIF file.
While demonstrating, Fang Xudong introduced: "Theoretically, all user's GIF animations can be added, but in order to ensure that the bandwidth usage does not exceed the standard, and to ensure the user's experience of launching pictures, we have added a function to YY. It automatically compresses GIF images, and the default is to compress them to less than 1MB."
Li Mu nodded approvingly and said, "Xudong has done a good job in this regard. He is able to consider additional issues based on product needs and come up with solutions."
Fang Xudong smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Li, to be honest, the popularity of GIF animations is not high at present, and the technical threshold for making a GIF animation is still very high for ordinary users, it is estimated that at least 95% The above users don’t know how to operate it, so I’m wondering, will this feature become unavailable to users in the future?”
Li Mu smiled and said, "This is what I want to tell you today."
As he spoke, Li Mu pointed at the function added to the GIF animation on the screen with a laser pointer and said: "In the first stage, you have to block this self-added function from me."
"Block it?" Fang Xudong looked surprised.
It's hard to build a function, but you have to block the entrance added by the user. What exactly is this operation
Fang Xudong said in confusion: "Mr. Li, I would like to take the liberty to say that if the entrance is blocked, it is equivalent to building a building without opening the door for users to enter and exit."
Li Mu shook his finger and said with a smile: "This is not that we built a building without opening a door for users, but that we built a building without giving users the permission to live in and decorate themselves."
Fang Xudong was stunned for a moment and asked: "You mean the developer's collective decoration style?"
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "That's right! It's collective decoration!"
With that said, Li Mu threw a USB flash drive to Fang Xudong and said, "Open it and take a look."
Fang Xudong inserted the USB flash drive into the computer suspiciously. After opening it, he found that there were twelve GIFs in it. Judging from the thumbnails, they were all cartoon pictures, and all of them were an ugly panda.
Fang Xudong said in surprise: "Mr. Li... this... is this the panda bear you personally designed..."
Li Mu nodded: "Yes, that's it!"
After saying that, Li Mu asked curiously: "I asked Taobao designers to do it for me. How do you know about this?"
Fang Xudong said awkwardly: "The whole company knows... To be honest, this panda bear has made everyone doubt your aesthetics for the first time..."
Li Mu laughed, pointed at the screen and said, "Open it first and take a look."
Fang Xudong opened the first one, and Panda Bear jumped over and said, "Here I come!"
This picture was projected on the big screen, and everyone burst into laughter.
Fang Xudong was also surprised and asked: "Mr. Li, this... is this a real person?"
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "It's me. How about it? Is it interesting?"
Fang Xudong said in surprise and joy: "You mean to treat this as a kind of chat content and provide it for everyone to use?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "Yes, think about it, if you have this animated picture, you can chat with your friends or send such an expression as the first sentence in a group chat. Don't you think this is very interesting?"
(End of chapter)